Singer killed by coyotes

[stone-ground]

Zoisite, yes it was around Abbotsford I think.

Jimrob, good post. Agree with you, the coyotes are losing their habitat and food sources.
Pretty sure the news did mention the fact that they had attacked small children in the past.

Thanks Chris1955, appreciate your sharing your experiences and wisdom on coyotes. Interesting how they've become bigger with the eastern migration, I'm guessing they have less predators in these areas?

The coyotes I was used to seeing were quite large. Then in northern Baja, saw the smaller version the size of foxes and would make a yip,yip, yip sound instead of a howl. But the next morning passing by a place where people were dumping garbage, came across a couple of big ones, which surprised me that there would be both ' sizes' in the same area.

I agree with you also about them losing their fear of man, especially closer to civilization .. as no one is giving them a reason to.

About a year ago, early one morning crossing the Burrard Street Bridge, came across a lone coyote near the end where the street veers off onto Cornwall .. meaning .. it had to have run across the whole bridge. It was pretty freaked out .. and kept running down the middle of the road.

For anyone who doesn't know Vancouver, this is a major, congested part of the downtown core.
That surprised me.

[Zoisite]

Originally Posted by stone-ground

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Zoisite, yes it was around Abbotsford I think.

Jimrob, good post. Agree with you, the coyotes are losing their habitat and food sources.
Pretty sure the news did mention the fact that they had attacked small children in the past.

Thanks Chris1955, appreciate your sharing your experiences and wisdom on coyotes. Interesting how they've become bigger with the eastern migration, I'm guessing they have less predators in these areas?

The coyotes I was used to seeing were quite large. Then in northern Baja, saw the smaller version the size of foxes and would make a yip,yip, yip sound instead of a howl. But the next morning passing by a place where people were dumping garbage, came across a couple of big ones, which surprised me that there would be both ' sizes' in the same area.

I agree with you also about them losing their fear of man, especially closer to civilization .. as no one is giving them a reason to.

About a year ago, early one morning crossing the Burrard Street Bridge, came across a lone coyote near the end where the street veers off onto Cornwall .. meaning .. it had to have run across the whole bridge. It was pretty freaked out .. and kept running down the middle of the road.

For anyone who doesn't know Vancouver, this is a major, congested part of the downtown core.
That surprised me.

I live up on the hill (near 41st and Knight) - the coyotes around here have learned to wait at intersection crosswalks to wait for the traffic lights to turn green so they can cross the road safely. Pretty darned observant of them, I must say.

[Chris1955]

Sorry about the typing on that last post, was posting from my navigation laptop.

But them coming in town is old hat out here, and since Vancouver is just up the road from us, they likely behave the same way there, I doubt they recognize the border.

I have seen deer using the automated crosswalks here in Olympia so it would not surprise me to hear coyotes learned the trick. I know I hear them howling all the time over in the log yard up the waterfront from me, and that is well in the city limits.

Some 2000 of them live in the Chicago Zoo, and not in cages. They apparently cause no trouble there. That is online, I can google it if it matters.

I saw a article online showing where one goes into a Subway back east and bums a sandwich every so often and people take pictures of it.

Normally around here nowadays they are tolerated as long as they leave pets and livestock alone. Once they cross that line we shoot them for a bit and then they behave for a while.

Last ones I shot were over a decade ago over in the Tri-Cities. We had a thread going about that in the Washington/Tricities forum, some people were wondering about them over there. They got pretty aggressive for a few years, and managed to get everyone shooting at them again, and now things are back to normal, according to my daughter who lives at our place there.

Edited to add: Part of the Seattle Urban Folklore is one got in the elevator at one floor in the Smith Tower, rode up a couple floors and then got off. With people on the elevator.